Some BlackBerry users on Friday morning are experiencing a service outage affecting emails and BBM, the company's proprietary messaging platform.

A number of messages appeared on Twitter from users saying that emails and BBM was not working. We are also seeing messages from users in the UK and other countries that they were experiencing problems with their devices. Messages from Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Misr, two cellphone service providers in the Middle East, are saying that the outage is an issue with RIM's network.